Oh yeah, yeah it’s so strange I didn’t think this could ever happen /Oh yeah, yeah it’s so strange I didn’t think I’d ever feel this way/I don’t want it I don’t want you/I don’t need it I don’t need you/This time I know I’m right, because every time I am right/And this little love story is straining to end and you’re still so messed up and we’re not even friends/I’m not coming, I won’t come down/I’m not coming down til I’ve calmed down/Oh yeah, yeah it’s so strange, I didn’t think this could ever happen/Oh yeah, yeah it’s so strange to wake up alone, wake up so elated

All the poets that surround me are damned damned damned/But what we see holy imagery/Our only power to intercede/In the TV screen talking head scene/Yeah the mind control of this media machine is 500 years deep here/And every sub/counter culture has been bought and sold/And cross marketing it is the only way to go/We all drink Che cola and wear fight the system ts/We’re all watching it play by play on our new television screens/Yeah the revolution is televised widely advertised/Clever marketing schemes on that idealized dream/And if the masses want their self destruction who am I to say/Distrust your tv screens distrust authority/And brand name anything/Socially we think we are so advanced everyone is a practitioner of PC/While behind our backs we’re buying tickets to that Hollywood comedy/And we laugh at rape laugh at violence laugh at hate/Because laughter is the best medicine to keep us doped up and unenlightened/Meanwhile we let the conservative right-wingers/put the queers through their righteous voting poll ringers/While we sit at home and watch TV so we know what to wear how to think/What to do if our neighbor starts looking like a terrorist

My head is cradled between your breasts/And your fingers trace the contours of my face/And I could lie with you like this for a long time/Cradled between your breasts I tell you you are the best I've ever had and we laugh until our sides hurt and then we fall into that same embrace/Cause you're the best I've ever had/You're the best I've ever had/Yeah you're the best I've ever had/I kiss your fingers, I kiss your eyes/You know you are the prettiest girl I know/And I wonder if anyone understands your beauty/Cradled between your breasts I tell you you are the best I've ever had/And we laugh until our sides hurt and then we fall into that same embrace/‘Cause you're the best I've ever had/You're the best I've ever had/Yeah, you're the best I've ever had

The house burnt down/Not to the ground but it might as well have/And I was so angry at probability/Why was it Wednesday/Why not Tuesday or Monday/Or any day that I did not have band at school/Any day that my clarinet wasn’t safe at school/I just wanted it to die/Die in the fire like it should have died/Like my kitty cat/Like my mom’s old photographs/Like my Dad’s comic book stash/Like my brother’s innocence/The house burnt down/Not to the ground but it might as well have

I could have been your housewife baby/I could have been your cheerleader/And you could have been a rock star baby/You could have owned this world/But the ghost of Elvis came to save us in your dreams/Said I want to teach you something I learned while I was king/Don’t mistake what you want for what the universe needs/And he said I’d ruin your life you’d ruin my life that’s all we could ever be/He said I’d ruin your life you’d ruin my life that’s all we could hope to be/I could have had your rockstar babies/I could have drown them in the bath/I could have been your muse/I could have been your Sylvia Plath/But the ghost of Elvis came to save us in your dreams/Said I want to teach you something I learned while I was king/Don’t mistake what you want for what the universe needs/And he said I’d ruin your life you’d ruin my life that’s all we could ever be/He said I’d ruin your life you’d ruin my life that’s all we could hope to be/Now I’m a rockstar not a stupid housewife/Not a stupid cheerleader/And I want to thank you/I want to thank you/I want to thank you for leaving me

Joanie could have saved her life/If she’d just put on a dress/And said Jesus the only child/Jesus is an only child/Jesus is the only child of god/Why would a god send a woman to do what men had always done/Why would she do that?/Joseph could have saved his life/If he’d just taken the pardon/Said I was guilty but now I’m free/Said I was guilty but now I’m free/Said I was guilty but now I’m free/Who needs fair trials anyway when freedom is all that we wage/Who’d die for that/I want to be a martyr/I want to die for this song/I want to be a martyr/I want to die for this song/Oh ohhhh yeah/Aileen could have saved her life/If she’d just got a respectable job/And said I don’t want to hook no more/I don’t want to hook no more/I don’t want to hook no more/The economy is looking fine/Plenty of good jobs you’ll find/For a poor uneducated white trash woman with no experience/I want to be a martyr/I want to die for this song/I want to be a martyr/I want to die for this song/Oh ohhhh yeah

I work so hard with nothing to show for it/All I create is later stolen and who’s got the keys unlock these iron gates/Who’s making money who’s dealing in hate/Fascist remix of Woody Guthrie/Twisting the truth up around our necks/This land is yours and this land is mine/What that means is nobody can own the rights/Nobody can own the rights/All the berries are rotten on their vines/And the sorrows here they’re multiplying/And all the things that we want and the things we need/Simply refuse to divide/But all the history we learn is dirty and polluted/So watered down with patriotic sentiment/So what of Lowell so what of Ludlow/The stolen blue prints of a revolution/A fascist remix of Woody Guthrie/Twisting the truth up around our necks/This land is yours and this land is mine/What that means is nobody can own the rights/Nobody can own the rights/Working class women rose and organized/They plotted with the moon to change the tide/Said all things we want and the things we need/Simply refuse to divide/But the big corporations they’ve got lots of gold/Lots of people working for something to hold/But starvation wages are what they get/Yeah the body’s hungry and the spirit’s in a coma/Fascist remix of Woody Guthrie/Twisting the truth up around our necks/This land is yours and this land is mine/What that means is nobody can own the rights/Nobody can own the rights

It’s 2006 and we don’t give a shit/It’s 2006 and we don’t give a shit/That Roe v. Wade is crumbling/We can’t trust the government/A piece of legislation is all that stands between our freedom/And your commandments/It’s 2006 and we don’t give a shit that we have no alternatives/But imagine a time before Roe v. Wade/When they’d pick up scared scared women on the corner and they’d/Blindfold them and put them in a car/Drive round in circles til they didn’t know where they were/They didn’t know where they were/And they’d take them to a room where some sleazy man/Would say hey I’m a doctor and he’d put his hands on her/And say honey if you don’t have all the money it’s ok/You can suck my dick/I’ll let you suck my dick/And there’s a history unknown/In 1969 the women of Chicago rose and said we’re not gonna take this/They didn’t take it to the courts they didn’t picket in the street/They knew direct action was the only way choice is free/They set up a clinic an abortion clinic/And no one was turned away just because they couldn’t pay/They performed over 11,000 abortions with kindness and compassion/They were just housewives and mothers/They were just students/There were no hospitals there were no doctors there were no nurses/And there were no men/And nobody died, nobody died, nobody died/How’s that for demystified/And there’s a history unknown/In 1969 the women of Chicago rose and said we’re not gonna take this/It’s 2006 and we don’t give a shit/It’s 2006 and we don’t give a shit/That Roe v. Wade is crumbling/We can’t trust the government/A piece of legislation is all that stands between our freedom/And your commandments/And with or without the legal right we’re not really free/No we’re not really free/Cuz the capitalist medical industry will never take care of you or me/And the patriarchic medical industry will never take care of you or me/Never take care of you or me/And the abortion industry is just legalized brutality/Power taken, knowledge withheld/A medical mystery upheld by science and little white men in little white coats/Science and little white men in little white coats/So we can’t leave this to the doctors we can’t leave this to the lawyers/We can’t leave this to the Christians we can’t leave this to the president/If we don’t decide the circumstances of our own lives/Then choice is just choosing to let someone else decide/And there’s a history unknown/In 1969 the women of Chicago rose and said we’re not gonna take this

Mother Jones never ran for office/Oh hell, you know she couldn't even vote/They told her women didn't speak in public/But she just smiled got up on her soap box and she spoke/Virginia Wolfe didn't march down the streets of London/There were too many untold her stories to tell/She was wrapped up in the rapture of a feminism she knew so intimately well/I am a daughter born of a heart full of rage/I am a feminist standing at the dawn of a new day/And I'll be damned if I'm going to waste one more song/Reciting the angers of a past gone wrong/We are no longer barred from the ballot box/And the law declares us equal enough to men/But you know laws will never change attitudes/And attitudes are slow and hard to change/I am a daughter born of a heart full of rage/I am a feminist standing at the dawn of a new day/And I'll be damned if I'm going to waste one more song/Reciting the angers of a past gone wrong/The political sphere has been and still is of, by and for rich, white men/Some things are sure to change but until then/We've got to check our anger and put this energy to good use/Through outright subversion we've got to back to our roots/I am a daughter born of a heart full of rage/I am a feminist standing at the dawn of a new day/And I'll be damned if I'm going to waste one more song/Reciting the angers of a past gone wrong/Through the years they come to me/Through time and space they comfort me/Through humility and grace I see/We are only the stories that we tell/I am a daughter born of a heart full of rage/I am a feminist standing at the dawn of a new day